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Lawrence Abrams reports: Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) disclosed today that suspected Russian hackers known as Midnight Blizzard gained access to the company’s Microsoft Office 365 email environment to steal data from its cybersecurity team an… Continue reading HPE: Russian hackers breached its security team’s email accounts
Government Technology reports: While school districts have a heightened awareness of cyber attacks and are increasingly improving their defense systems, most indicate that they still need dedicated personnel to better protect their data in addition to … Continue reading K-12 Cybersecurity Spending, Insurance on the Rise
Ed Targett reports: Financial technology company EquiLend – the owner of a NGT [Next Generation Trading], a platform that executes $2.4 trillion of securities transactions each month – has confirmed “unauthorized access to our systems” on January… Continue reading $2.4 trillion securities platform owner hacked. EquiLend admits “unauthorised access”
Joseph Cox reports: This article was produced in collaboration with Court Watch, an independent outlet that unearths overlooked court records. Authorities charged a man from Baltimore on Monday with allegedly running a so-called TLO data service, a too… Continue reading Feds Charge Alleged ‘TLO’ Underground Data Broker
Hayden Mitman reports: Law enforcement officials in Bucks County are working to restore services to its computer-aided dispatch system, or CAD system, after a cyberattack on Sunday crippled the service. However, county officials said 9-1-1 services rem… Continue reading Bucks Co. emergency dispatch system down for days due to cyberattack
Riley Griffin reports: Hackers stole millions of dollars in grant money from the Department of Health and Human Services last year in a series of attacks, according to two people familiar with the matter. Between late March and mid-November, the hacker… Continue reading Hackers Stole $7.5 Million in Grant Money From US Health Department
Joseph Menn reports: Microsoft said hackers working for the Russian government broke into its corporate networks two months ago and stole email from executives and some employees in its cybersecurity and legal departments. Microsoft said in a late Frid… Continue reading Microsoft says Russian government hackers stole email from its leaders
In the process of researching breach reports submitted to HHS, DataBreaches came across a public notice for an incident affecting Primary Health & Wellness Center, LLC in Maryland. The covered entity is to be commended for the details and transpare… Continue reading Primary Health & Wellness Center, LLC’s public notice of ransomware incident
On January 11, DataBreaches noted a concerning blob exposure discovered by Jerome Fowler and first reported by vpnMentor. As WIRED’s Matt Burgess reported: Last month, security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered 800 gigabytes of files and logs… Continue reading Raptor Technologies’ unsecured blob exposure was worse than they acknowledged. Here’s what we know — and don’t know — so far.
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Today, CISA ordered U.S. federal agencies to secure their systems against three recently patched Citrix NetScaler and Google Chrome zero-days actively exploited in attacks, pushing for a Citrix RCE bug to be patched within a week… Continue reading CISA pushes federal agencies to patch Citrix RCE within a week